Medvedev, Meet Obama: President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev meet today for the beginning of their two-day summit, in which they plan to discuss an ambitious nuclear arms control agreement. The Wall Street Journal says the two have set a “high bar” for the discussions.
McNamara Dead: Robert McNamara, the defense secretary largely responsible for leading the United States into the Vietnam War, died today at 93, the Associated Press reports. The New York Times obituary writes that the war became McNamara’s “personal nightmare.” It notes: “Half a million American soldiers went to war on his watch. More than 16,000 died; 42,000 more would fall in the seven years to come.”
GM Sold: A bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of General Motors’ assets to a new corporation, allowing the once-mighty auto company to avoid liquidation. “Judge Robert Gerber said in his 95-page ruling late Sunday that the sale was in the best interests of both GM and its creditors, whom he said would otherwise get nothing,” the AP reports.
Admonished: Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski is receiving a public admonishment for storing pornography on a public Web site. According to the Legal Intelligencer, “The investigation was sparked by reports in The Los Angeles Times that said Kozinski kept pornographic images on a Web site that was accessible to the public, including ‘a picture of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows and a video of a half-dressed man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal.’”
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